Walkom: Assessing the brutal, pointless Afghan war

[CHIMO]

On Tuesday, Canada officially ended its combat mission in Afghanistan. It should never have started.

The war has been a dismal failure. It did not achieve its primary aim of capturing or killing terror chief Osama Bin Laden. A U.S. assassination squad operating in Pakistan finally did that.

Nor has it defeated the Taliban. As Canadian and other NATO-led troops prepare for their final 2014 withdrawal, the insurgents remain dangerous, active and unbowed.

Canadians were killed to guarantee just-in-time delivery of auto parts. That is not sufficient reason.

http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/1021275--walkom-assessing-the-brutal-pointless-afghan-war

[Bragi]

1. "Canadians were killed to guarantee just-in-time delivery of auto parts."

I think that's a spectacularly accurate and depressing description of the whole fiasco.